One of the main upgrades found in Internet Explorer 7 is the skin.

If your wannabe geek claims that Internet Explorer 7 fixed all the Internet Explorer 6 vulnerabilities (he must not have been around when the first vulnerability was found six days after the launch), you can save him from himself by installing Firefox with a few add-ons. Making Firefox look and feel like Internet Explorer 7 Go to the User Agents tab, click Add…, make the User Agent Mozilla/4.0 (compatible MSIE 6.0 Windows NT 5.1), the App Name Microsoft Internet Explorer, the Version 4.0 (compatible MSIE 6.0 Windows NT 5.1), and the Platform Win32. Install the User Agent Switcher and then configure it by going to Tools -> Options -> Add-Ons and clicking the Preferences button for User Agent Switcher. First, make Firefox mask as Internet Explorer 6. Once you have everything looking just right, you can give Firefox the features of Internet Explorer 6. If you’re extra picky (or like a good joke), install the Firesomething extension to change the browser’s title to “Microsoft Internet Explorer” (or “Mozilla Internet Explorer” or “Microsoft Firefox”). It will change the toolbars, icons, address bar, search bar, tab bar, and throbber to look exactly as they do (or in the case of the search bar, would do) in Internet Explorer 6. To do this, install the Looks Familiar theme. If you want to make an inexperienced Windows users comfortable with Firefox, you’ll first want to make Firefox look exactly like IE. When you’re converting relatives to Firefox, IE 6 will most likely be what they’re used to. One of the most popular browsers (and the most popular browser for non-techies) is Internet Explorer (IE) 6. Making Firefox look and feel like Internet Explorer 6 However, all these users overlook one of the most powerful features of Firefox: support for third-party add-ons, which can make emulating the features of other browsers extremely simple. And the social networking gurus point to the powerful social networking features Flock boasts and Firefox lacks. Opera, Safari, and Netscape users complain that it’s missing many of their favorite features. One of the biggest complaints a Firefox evangelist encounters is “it doesn’t act or feel like browser X.” Internet Explorer users complain that Firefox doesn’t look like what they’re used to.

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